14 June 2017

Bicycle card... just for you !

Hi there!

There's something about a bicycle card... Bicycles and flowers, or hearts or balloons... always a pretty picture!

Thanks to Fusion card challenge for the pretty inspiration picture. I love a challenge... and decided to accept the challenge to do the fusion between the sketch and inspiration photo... tweaked the sketch a bit by rotating it and adjusting the curve to fit the design.

A closer look:

I shared the photo below on Instagram yesterday. I was just again so pleasantly surprised by the delicate cut the Silhouette cameo is able to make!

The bicycle is a cutting file from Apex cuttables, available here.
I used a heavier type of colored paper rather than card stock to make this delicate cut, adjusting the cut settings to "copy paper - medium" and using a relative new ratchet blade.

To give a bit more weight to the bicycle, I cut it once more, using white lightweight card stock, just erasing the basket detail in the Silhouette studio.
The stencil for the BG was also cut with my cameo. I used Soft Granite shadow ink (Hero Arts) to sponge the wall .
Sentiment also designed in the Silhouette Studio, font used KG Strawberry Limeade.

As you can see, I found the picture so inspiring, ended up kind of recreating the image, just using hearts instead of flowers 😊💛.

13 comments:

Never thought a cycle would look adorable, but that's what I thought as soon as I saw this! Such beautiful card, Hannelie! I am in love with colors, the design and the beautiful...everything!!xx Ashwini

This is the perfect fusion, Hannelie! And the Silhouette cutting is amazing. My Silhouette decided it didn't want to cut a whole image and halfway through, the blade goes back "home", cutting a lovely big diagonal through my design :( So it's been put into time out, which is a shame because they are so useful.

Wow times a kazillion! Thank you so much for sharing the paper/cut settings because when I first spied this AWESOME card I immediately thought that it was a purchased die cut! Love the vintage look of the bike - especially the color and the heart chain guard!

Made my heart smile cuz Danny's grandpa had a bike that he painted with house paint...and it was exactly this color! His bike looked great...and it matched their house!

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